choices, Choices!!!
This week for question 1 choose your favorite between a, b, c, and d to discuss.
For question 2, choose your favorite between a, b, and c to discuss.
For question 3, choose your favorite between questions a, b, c, and d to discuss.
You should answer 3 questions all together, one from each article!!
Dont forget the whole point of discussions is to read and respond to your classmates.
1. Describe how the following topics are better or worse than skin color when describing groups of humans using Jared Diamond’s article “Race without Color.”
a) Natural selection and invisible traits,
b) Natural selection and body shape,
c) sexual selection for traits that do not aid survival,
d) traits that serve no known function at all.
Summarize his discussion of the traits that you choose, and explain how it fits in to his overall argument in “Race Without Color.” Finally, do you agree with his analysis?
2. Using the article “Skin Deep,” discuss
a) how is hairless ness related to skin color and natural selection in humans
b) According to the Article ‘Skin Deep,’ what is the relationship between Vitamin D and Folate?
c) How do the authors explain skin color variation in terms of ‘vitamin D zones? How do they explain populations that do not fit this model
3. For “Evolution and the Origins of Disease” summarize how the article explains the connection between evolution and the given phenomenon
a) evolved defenses
b) conflicts with other organisms
c) coping with novelty
d) trade-offs and constraints
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